Phoenix, AZ — Avnet has moved its "Ask Avnet" web agent into open beta, providing access to anyone in the Americas who visits www.avnet.com to a diverse base of engineering knowledge. This contains information across the entire Avnet ecosystem, including Avnet, Hackster.io and element14. The service combines ...

Thief River Falls, MN — Customers who opted in to be early adopters of the Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 6® BLE (Bluetooth low energy) Pioneer Kit through Digi-Key Electronics, will be seeing the product arrive shortly. The company has received the highly-anticipated stock and has begun to process and ship customer ...

Montreal, Quebec, Canada — Future Electronics has signed an America's distribution agreement with Lumentum. Under the terms of the agreement, Future Electronics is authorized to sell Lumentum's optical transceiver products. Lumentum is a manufacturer of optical and photonic products that enable optical networking ...

Ivyland, PA — NDC International is now representing Haecker Automation in North America. For more than 20 years, Haecker Automation has provided future-oriented solutions in microsystems technology. The family-owned, German company operates worldwide in the fields of microassembly, micro- and nanodispensing ...

Wilmington, MA — Heilind Electronics has expanded its selection of interconnect solutions with the Hirose BNC75 series connector. The serial digital interface (SDI) compliant connectors support transmission speeds up to 12 Gb/s. Hirose's BNC75 series has an easy-on, easy-off bayonet lock system and is rated ...

Oxford, CT — MIRTEC has appointed YouSMT as its distributor in Italy. Based in Rubano, Italy, YouSmt is actively involved in PCB assembly, providing new and used equipment, as well as quality consumables to the electronics industry. A young and dynamic company, YouSMT was able to sell one of MIRTEC's systems ...

Phoenix, AZ — Avnet has been awarded a 2016 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOO) Supplier Award from Celestica, winning in the "Best Aerospace and Defense Partner" category. The awards program recognizes suppliers who provide the best TCOO performance to Celestica and support the company's overall business objectives ...

Bradford, PA — KOA Speer Electronics has added Halbar-RTS, Inc., to its representatives network. The company will be responsible for selling the entire KOA Speer product line in the Northwest territory of the United States, which includes Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. Halbar-RTS has a history of providing ...

Munich, Germany — Microtronic GmbH has partnered with Nufesa Electronics as its distributor for the LBT210 soldering test and ConTTest systems in Spain and Portugal. Nufesa Electronics has been working with the many brands in the market for more than 25 years. With both national and international market experience ...

Spokane Valley, WA — Nordson SELECT has appointed distributors for Europe that include Gen3 Systems in the U.K. and Ireland, and smarTec GmbH to cover Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. ACE Production Technologies, now part of Nordson SELECT, previously worked with Gen3 for almost 10 ...

Middleborough, MA — Sager Electronics has acquired the distribution and supply business of Power Sources Unlimited, Inc. (PSUI), a specialty distributor of power conversion products located in Wrentham, Massachusetts. PSUI is well-established in the Northeastern U.S. Sager is a North American distributor of ...

Tampa, FL — Europlacer has appointed Giantec Electronics, Inc., as its exclusive distributor in Taiwan. Giantec is based in Taoyuan City and will distribute and support Europlacer's flexible placement systems and intelligent warehouse management system (WMS) solutions. Giantec will also offer the full range ...

Brookfield, WI — Exact Metrology is now representing the ProCon line of X-ray inspection equipment for industrial and commercial applications, as well as university and scientific research operations. ProCon high-resolution focus X-ray technology delivers excellent image quality and is widely used for non-destructive ...

Elgin, IL — HELUKABEL® has opened two new local subsidiaries in Mexico and Brazil. The company has seen growing demand in Central and South America for its products, making it an appropriate time to establish more local business segments. The subsidiaries in Brazil and Mexico are located in the industrial ...

St. Petersburg, FL — Plasma-Therm, LLC, and Trymax Semiconductor Equipment BV have entered into a distribution agreement for North America. The agreement gives Plasma-Therm the exclusive rights to distribute all of Trymax's NEO products for ashing applications.